As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
DB10GOONER wrote:Lads, as someone that has always defended the right for threads to meander all over the fucking place on here, God forbid that I try now to keep one even a tad on track!! But seriously, this is about the FA CUP we just won. There is a politics bollotics thread in the basement. Happy enough for tits, footy, tits, racism, six-toe on each hand Hull fans, tits etc to be discussed here, but politics??!!
Anyballs - I'm still fucking thrilled to bits to have won the cup! Can't believe I'm this happy tbh.
Praise the Lord Amen
Good idea, let's debate religion instead
But Arsenal (and footie) ARE a Religion...
DENIS BERGKAMP WALKS ON WATER TRAAA LAAA LAAA LAAA LAAA!
Great vid this, the moment we score the winning goal and as a fan you lose all sense of reality! I know exactly how it felt !
Yeah...it's at times like that when Time Stops, the PLanet Stops Turning and everything goes into quick slow motion and then the roar and jostling all around hits - its such a wonderful magical feeling.
Great vid this, the moment we score the winning goal and as a fan you lose all sense of reality! I know exactly how it felt !
Second vid is a gooner who sits in front of me at the emirates, I laffed when I watched the rerun on ITV his face was a picture after gibbs missed that sitter. It will be fun to rib him about this next season, but if the truth be known we where all going through the same emotions.
manninger wrote:Came from Denmark to see the match and paid 650£ for the ticket(not on the black market)...worth every penny of it(we won)..also tired of people saying winning is a big thing because it was against Hull...we beat the victims...everton.....spuds...Wigan(beat Citeh who had a with strong line up...) enjoy the cup..and not like myles palmer who even can't enjoy himself..not being carried away, but you have to enjoy the moment...great to be gooners ,people who you did not know but was shanking hands with, nodding to each other ...maybe I am a softie, but I shred a tear or two...and did so when I got congratulations text messages..enjoy your summer, gents...I will..especial more this summer
and we don't want politics remark!!!
Bloody foreigners coming over here and taking our tickets... !
Couldn't agree with you more. Not afraid to say that was the first time I've shed a tear at a match for a long, long time (although did the same when Murray won Wimbledon!). It was a cup final and matters not a jot how we won it (and with a better referee we certainly wouldn't have needed extra time!!) or who we beat. Don't think City celebrated their title win two years ago any less because they stumbled over the line against a team who narrowly avoided relegation...
At the parade on Sunday two lads came all the way from Sydney specifically for the cup final. They didn't come across as plastics and really knew their stuff. One of them paid £480 for a club wembley seat at our end of the ground, which when its part of a package that costs a few thousand quid doesn't sound too bad.
Apparently Arsenal has a big support down under, so it looks like our marketing strategy is finally working.
I have really enjoyed seeing the video's on faceboook / Arsenal.con of various supporters groups abroad watching the final and the ensuing celebrations.
They celebrate every bit as passionately as we did at Wembley (or various North London pubs)
btw we now have over 24million official fans on facebook
And at the end of the day winning trophies is what will make that figure grow
For a long time now I have had this debate with people who argue that the difference in financial prize money is not a big enough incentive to the board when considering the extra investment it will require to jump from 4th to 1st - yes at face value that is true but it fails to take into account the potential loss in revenue the club will suffer when future generations of fans start supporting the likes of citeeh and the chavs as kids. In outher countries kids and adults with no affinity to a region or city in england, will pick out a team to support based on what they see on their tv screens. In sponsorship terms companies want to be associated with winners and want to expose their brand to a large potential customer base - in this era we as a club wont be hard hard yet cos our successes 10 years ago are still recent enough for many fans, but if we carry down the same road of underachieving that we are currently on, then our fanbase wont see any significant growth whilst our rivals will and we will then be a less attractive proposition to potential sponsors
But Arsenal (and footie) ARE a Religion... 
